Tuesday 14.9.10
The next day I got up and journeyed to Schloss Hellbrunn (translates to something like 'light-fountain castle') which is the royal palace complex a little south of Salzburg. It's pretty picturesque and the grounds are nice.
It is also the site of the pavilion from the film The Sound of Music. You know, the one where Liesl and her man-squeeze escape the rain and dance around singing "I am 16 going on 17." Anyway, I stood in front of that and took a picture, but it was locked so I couldn't go inside and dance around singing out of tune. I think I found some hill overlooking the grounds and sat down to smoke my cigar and eat some food. I followed some signs to the stone theatre, which is this awesome theatre stage carved out of stone in the side of this big rock. The shape lends natural acoustics. Here's a picture:
After Hellbrunn I went to explore the city of Salzburg, photograph some churches, the usual. I saw these two guys playing chess on a gigantic board outside the cathedral. The board was so large that they had to stride across it and grasp the chessmen, which came up to their waists, and haul them over to their new squares. It was pretty fun to watch. There was also a quartet of uncommon instruments playing nearby. I hiked up some hill and found a bench to eat and smoke. I took a video of a slug eating a crumb I'd dropped. I thought of going into the house in which Mozart was born, but decided I'd miss my train back to Vienna, so ended up not. It also looked super super touristy.
I don't think anything really notable happened for the rest of my journey. I returned to Vienna, took a subway line to the airport, and slept fitfully on some chairs until my flight. When I first arrived, in the middle of the night, or wee hours of the morning, there were these two guys talking over coffee. Very poetic at such an hour. Anyway, nothing too notable, I don't think. Then I went back to university at UCSD. The end.
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